Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...
: Efficient information sharing is very important for emergency and rescue operations. These operations often have to be performed in environments where no communication infrastruc...
Ontology has been widely adopted as the basis of knowledge sharing and knowledge-based public services. However, ontology construction is a big challenge, especially in collaborati...
In this paper, we propose an approach to guide search to sources of conflicts. The principle is the following: the last variable involved in the last conflict is selected in priori...
In this paper we investigate the relationship between two prioritized knowledge bases by measuring both the conflict and the agreement between them. First of all, a quantity of co...